ISLAMABAD: If Imran Khan’s civil disobedience means refusing tax payment then Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has already been observing it.
The directory of lawmakers indicates that KP MPAs top in tax default throughout Pakistan.
As PTI chief yesterday urged public not to pay taxes, he failed to realise that several PTI members holding positions in the provincial cabinet of KP are non-taxpayers.
KP Assembly has 124 members of whom 27 (21.77 percent) are tax defaulters. Another 61 (62.88 per cent) MPAs were too ‘poor’ to pay a penny in income tax.
The provincial assembly’s speaker Asad Qaisar, minister for public health engineering Shah Farman, CM’s special assistant Sooran Singh are among prominent zero taxpayers in KP, according to the tax directory released by FBR in February this year.
Likewise, PTI president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Murad Saeed and Sheheryar Afridi and Ayesha Gulalai filed zero tax return, according to the directory.
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